![]() ![]() If Gauri sounds like the annoying (but fun!) sibling in your own life, that’s because she’s based upon a very real person: Chokshi's younger sister. The savagery.”Ī Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi, $10.33, Amazon ![]() "She didn’t like following outlines, laughed openly at my ideas of backstory and kept trying to kill her love interest. "Gauri was a chore to write," Chokshi says. "She ended up becoming such a powerful background force in that I had to give her a story."īut while the fiery, feisty princess insisted upon her own story, she didn’t make things easy. “Gauri was just insistent," Chokshi tells Bustle. In the recently released A Crown of Wishes, the companion novel to A Star-Touched Queen, Gauri takes centerstage - and, Chokshi admits, it’s because the character demanded it. ![]() But, like many other readers, I found myself equally as enchanted by another character: Guari, Maya's young, bright, and hopeful sister. The story follows one not-so-average Princess named Maya, whose rebellious nature leads her down a dark path. ![]() Last year, author Roshani Chokshi earned herself a spot as one of young adult literature's biggest stars when she hit the New York Times bestseller list with her stunning debut novel The Star-Touched Queen - a dreamy, star-crossed romance with roots in Hindu and Greek mythology. ![]()
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